François II de La Tour
François II. De La Tour (* July 5, 1497 Château de Limeuil in Périgord ; † July 12, 1532 Château de Villocher near Châteaubriant ) was a French nobleman, diplomat and military man who was particularly involved in the first two Italian wars between Francis I. and Charles V was active.
Life
François II. De La Tour is the son of Antoine de La Tour the Elder, Vicomte de Turenne († 1527), and Antoinette de Pons († before 1511). He grew up as an enfant d'honneur du roy . In 1510 he was declared of legal age by his father and made Vicomte de Turenne. He also became Seigneur et Baron de Montgascon , d ' Olliergues , Croc, Bouzols, Fay et Servissac
He was Chevalier de l'Ordre du Roi (i.e. in the Ordre de Saint-Michel ), French councilor and chamberlain, Capitaine de 100 gentilshommes de sa maison (i.e. of the royal household).
In 1521 he took part in the French campaign in Flanders , in 1522 and 1523 in the defense against the Austrian attacks in Picardy . In 1524 he was appointed Lieutenant-General of the Italian Army under the Duke of Albany and Capitaine de 50 hommes d'armes des ordonnances .
In 1526 he was together with Gabriel de Gramont, Bishop of Tarbes , extraordinary ambassador to England with the task of negotiating the marriage of the king to Mary of England , daughter of Henry VIII , as well as a military alliance against the emperor.
In 1528 he was in Florence during the war for the Kingdom of Naples , then became French governor of Genoa and finally negotiated the peace between the Pope and Venice in the same year .
On March 10, 1529 François II. De La Tour he was appointed governor and lieutenant general de l'Île-de-France .
Also in 1529 François II. De La Tour was sent to Spain to negotiate with the aim of bringing back the French princes who had been held hostage there due to the defeat of Pavia and the imprisonment of Francis I, in order to obtain the ransom payment for the French Guarantee king; about the marriage between Francis I and Eleanor of Castile was ratified again, which he married on March 20, 1530 in the name of the king.
1531 was the commander-in-chief of the army that the king sent to Picardy. In 1532 he traveled with the king to Brittany to the Dauphin as Franz III. to make a duke.
François II. De La Tour died on this trip on July 12th near Châteaubriant. According to his will, he was buried in the Franciscan church of Brives.
marriage and family
François II. De La Tour married by marriage contract on April 19, 1516 (Jaligny) Catherine d'Amboise, heiress of Guy d'Amboise, Seigneur de Ravel , and Françoise de l'Espinasse, called Dauphine ( House Amboise ). The bride apparently died after a short time, the marriage remained childless.
On June 21, 1518 he married by marriage contract ( Angers Castle ) Anne de La Tour d'Auvergne, called Boulogne († 1530 after March 8), Dame de Montgascon, daughter of Godefroi II. De la Tour d'Auvergne, Baron de Montgascon ( La Tour d'Auvergne house ), widow of Charles de Bourbon, Comte de Roussillon († 1510), and Jean de Montmorency, Sire d'Écouen († before 1516). She was buried in the Franciscan Church in Paris . Your children are:
- François III. de La Tour (born January 25, 1526; X August 13, 1557 in the battle of Saint-Quentin ), Viscount de Turenne, Baron de Montgascon etc., governor and lieutenant general of Bresse and Bugey , captain of Burgundy ; ∞ (Marriage contract February 15, 1545) Éléonore de Montmorency († before 1557), daughter of Anne de Montmorency , Duc de Montmorency , Connétable de France - the parents of Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon
- Claude; ∞ 1535 Just II, Seigneur de Tournon
- Anne, † 1532 before her father
- Antoinette; ∞ (Marriage contract June 12, 1545) François Le Roy, Seigneur de Chavigny, Comte de Clinchamp, Chevalier des Ordres du Roi , Lieutenant-général of Anjou , Touraine and Maine († February 18, 1606, 87 years old), son of Louis Le Roy, Seigneur de Chavigny et de Baussonière, and Antoinette de Saint-Père
- Renée († April 20, 1548), 1535 nun in Saint-Louis de Poissy , appointed abbess of Le Paraclet near Troyes in 1548 , could no longer take office
literature
- Detlev Schwennicke , European Family Tables , Volume 10, 1986, Plate 96f
- Père Anselme , Histoire généalogique , 3rd edition, Volume 4, p. 537
Remarks
- ↑ Père Anselme: 1525; the marriage between Mary and King Francis I (instead of the Dauphin Francis) and Mary of England was only proposed by Cardinal Wolsey in 1526.
- ↑ The negotiations failed u. a. the fact that Henry VIII from 1527 annulled his marriage to Catherine of Aragon , which would have made Maria an illegitimate child.
- ^ Certainly after the Peace of Cambrai on August 5th, 1529
- ↑ Père Anselme mentions March 20, 1529 (old style), d. H. March 20, 1530 (new style) as Easter was April 17th
- ↑ The new heir was Antoinette d'Amboise , who married Antoine de La Rochefoucauld in 1518
- ^ Son of Louis de Bourbon , Admiral of France , Comte de Roussillon , an illegitimate son of Charles I. de Bourbon , and Jeanne de France, an illegitimate daughter of Louis XI.
- ↑ Son of Guillaume de Montmorency († 1531) and Anne Pot
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | La Tour, François II. De |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Viscount de Turenne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French nobleman, diplomat and military man, governor of Île-de-France |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1497 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Château de Limeuil |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1532 |
| Place of death | Château de Villocher near Châteaubriant |